Hubble study ties 93-billion-mile “Cat’s Tail” to a collision near Beta Pictoris
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the “Cat’s Tail,” a roughly 93-billion-mile cloud of dark dust in the disk around young star Beta Pictoris, about 63 light-years from Earth in Pictor. In The Astrophysical Journal Letters, University of Arizona-led work by Arin Avsar, using 14 years of observations, indicates the structure likely formed when Pluto-sized bodies collided.
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